The scriptures draw attention to the great gulf fixed between the natural world and the spiritual world. Man is currently sealed into an understanding of the natural side of life. The natural order of life is paramount for most people on this planet. We are sealed with natural natures with natural understandings that lack spiritual connection with God, having no understanding of the faith that changes a great many of men’s destinies to become conformed to His death.
“More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ, and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith, that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death;
in order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect, but I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus. Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ.” Philippians 3:8-14 NASB
I agree with Paul that men exist after death, their spiritual fates have been written within their hearts. Knowledge of God can ordain men’s futures, their fates are as He choses, they are ones whom He has have mercy upon. He opens the spiritual understanding of His sons and daughters which frees them from the natural limits of the carnal mind. Christ within us will free us from our limited natural viewpoints, He frees us from being stuck to or in earthly things, including religious orders that blind people to God’s truth hidden within the defeated fallen nature of men—those who have not pressed for an upward, spiritual call in God that understands Sonship life. These righteous people are shut up in darkness, teaching dark ideas that amount to teachings of hate to the many multitudes.
Many religions through time have had power on earth to open their own prison house. Natural minded men have ruled the “Christian” churches with carnal minded thoughts that have staked off an understanding of the “letter” of the word. This way of knowing the scripture has divided us, not making us holy people in the one true church. Those who go have been called out to go to heights, however, break the holds of the religious mountains to cross their barriers. They have ended the violence and deceit working in religious hierarchies to conquer us and hold us in sin.
We brethren who have crossed to regeneration, born again, are doing God’s will. Some are changed by His Spirit, but we all must be changed until all we want is to come to the rest of God. The seventh day is a day of rest, rest from modifications and changes of environment, rest from gathering food, vitamins, hormones, medications for our physical and mental well being. Our natural energy has failed and self-righteous moral efforts have been devoted to dividing God’s people. Their works have failed to improve our character enough as a people. All of our religious exercises have failed.
Ritual traditions keep working at it, yet they lack quickening life and their ceremonies do not endow a single human soul with correct spiritual understanding. Only Christ working within causes us to receive the attributes of God's life, immortality, and incorruptibility. Yet, as promised, the spiritual part of us knows God’s Spirit as penetrating the lower orders beneath, while yet grasping the reality that Jesus has gained. His life is incorruptible and He is reigning above what is seen by the carnal minded world of perishing men. Finding our place where God’s life is more fully available, in the upward call where we are seeing the principles of life being established within our spiritual beings. God grants “sight” (eyes of our understanding) to see how to enter into inner spiritual oneness with Jesus Christ:
"Jesus answered and said to him, ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.’ Nicodemus said to Him, "‘How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born, can he?’ Jesus answered, ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not be amazed that I said to you, You must be born again." John 3:3-7 NASB
“Except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God...except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God.” John 3:3-5 KJV
Hoards of natural minded men have lived, but how many where “born again” to see and enter the Kingdom of God? The scripture is, “except a man be born of water and Spirit, he cannot enter.” God arbitrarily shuts out religious zealots, “TV deadheads,” speaking things untrue, that are not born of His Spirit. Regardless, they seem to make a great living from ministering the first principles of Christ. Great truth is involved when inspired Paul pointed out these principles:
“The natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.” I Corinthians 2:14
It is simply not possible for the natural minded man to receive the things of God unless His Spirit is revealing it openly through spiritually minded people regardless of their race, creed, or color. Natural minded man of flesh CANNOT receive the things of God’s Spirit until God quickens it within them to make it real. God promises to make it so with all of us in due time. We hope you fellowship with God’s great host that is holy, with such as gain the prize of life, with those drawn to the high places.
The natural minded ministers of today do not know God’s judgments, as they, too, are bound in darkness that needs to be shaken. God will shake every heavenly mountain and every “earthly” mountain in us until He reveals we — no man, no one — can spontaneously regenerate themselves into God’s true nature, pure love, a holy image. One must be born again, awakened to a process of growth by spiritually understanding His Word. We are to continue in this process until we grow up to think more like God, to know God as the Father of our life, to discern what is being BORN OF THE SPIRIT NOW. This necessity to pass from lower spheres of religious devotion births a desire to follow on to higher spheres. Here a son and a Father become one spirit, mindful of what they can see to enter (lay hold upon) to become one with the King, in the Kingdom of God.
Christ Jesus is alive and will be coming to complete God’s plan as long as time shall endure. We are birthed to that new mind, washed anew in the water of His Word, a water that germinates seeds of love, peace, and joy within our hearts by a comforting Spirit of Sonship. We bear witness within our present spiritual being that we have reached into the places where God makes kingdom priests of us mortals. He appeared within our hearts and minds to write truth on our hearts, so that truth possesses our faculties from within.
The Kingdom of Christ Jesus within us is devoted to bringing justice to heaven and earth. Jesus is coming to make all things new. He does this by revealing the truth within our inner being. God loves believers who yield to His insight, allow it to POSSESS them, to be rooted, grounded in love, and ever growing in Kingdom grace.
To possess “the full measure of Christ”, one must discern the present public image of the church, which captures souls to build in their passing heavens, is itself “mystery Babylon”. This realm is destined to be burned, saved but burned with fire, burning up those old heavenly images in church with followers of the Lamb. Yet some go withersoever the Spirit of the firstborn Son instructs them, maturing to know the coming one. Our future is where CHRIST POSSESSES US with new ideas, new strength , new health. He that was, He that IS, and He that is, IS the coming One. God raises believers to behold Jesus so we know His Life. God keeps us hidden with Christ as we are raised in the Day of the Lord.
God has to raise us from all kinds of dead things — dead ideas, dead projects — until we are truly free from trespasses and sin, being made alive in our inner spiritual being. The resurrection power of God helps us find our spiritual homeland, our spiritual existence. We have AWOKEN and now our spirit is ALIVE, born from realm to realm, looking to fulfill our spiritual destiny. We are answering a call to fully enter the Kingdom using the required keys that open inner connections within us.
Jesus Christ washes us with divine words that connect us with His Spirit. The principles of wisdom and understanding grow within us. This is a process by which a great host has grown to full stature from the seeds of hearing “His Word.” We who are called now are divinely created beings, able to endure all things through Christ Jesus. Jesus is the first born of many brethren and, like Him, we are destined to be raised up and set free from every bondage. EVERY form of death has been conquered through our Father’s provision to His Son. His Spirit quickens our inner spiritual being to constantly bring the consistent good news of His viewpoint. His “new things” are being birthed.
He speaks anew when He comes to raise us and make us alive. We are constantly being touched by the Word and Spirit of God. We are being conformed to the life of Christ, raised a people that are pure, unique jewels of the Kingdom order. We conquer every problem found in the death realm as we draw from Christ within, now, and time after time, until He rescues those of us who can perceive the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus.
Thus, God helps us find a place, granting entrance to a fuller measure of righteousness and peace in the Kingdom of God:
“Another parable put He forth unto them, saying, ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field: which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs.” Matthew 13:31-32
Now the mineral elements of the earth are drawn into the organic plants to create oxygen for life as we know it on this planet. The natural creation of plants are made by God, part of — one of — His domains. The kingdom of living plants can bear seed to reproduce. All plants bearing seed are to be our basic food. Within every plant’s seed is a code of life. Seeds contain their code of life written by God — that plant was made by God.
God created man from the lifeless dark mineral world of earth. New levels of life spring up within us, newness of life is birthed. No longer buried in the earth, the seed is changed like a plant reaching for the right amount of sunlight and the right amount of water to continue a cycle of plant life — life that springs from a seed. God writes His Word from His seed planted upon our hearts. Peace must be reigning within our hearts.
New strength instantly flows as we break the earthly parts of us, a shell that contains our “God given life”. We burst to life as we poke through earth’s crust, being free from fear and death. Speaking Kingdom truthfulness, His Word, like a seed, is released to SEIZE UPON the elements of our domain. We grow with a God-given ability to conquer the weakness and death within our lives. We who are birthed grow to have one Head Who is living!
Our earthly elements are transformed into drawing from the living substance of God’s full-grown Son. This amazing change is happening around us in the spiritual realms, it effects the natural world, and helps us understand what Jesus meant when He said:
"…the Kingdom of Heaven is like unto a mustard seed, which is the least of all seeds, but when it is sowed in the field, and becomes grown, it is the greatest of herbs." Matthew 13:31
The mustard seed is a small, small, seed, but when germinated the plant can become the biggest thing in the garden. The roots coming from the seed stretch down, touching minerals and gases hidden in the earth to draw within a mysterious form to live. It draws life from the earth to grow tall where sunlight makes oxygen within such living things.
In like manner, God has placed seeds of His Word within our spirit, where right thoughts create rightness, right thinking. Our earthly minded foolishness is dismissed as we grow to put away childish things, made alive. His Word washes us from worry. We are changed as He teaches us, drawn to His light and life. The spirit of man, once quickened of His Spirit, is destined to go where God wills. Many people are touched by God’s Spirit, awakened, renewed, born again and again into further growth and devotion to Christ Jesus who is the source of all things new.
Spiritual growth comes as He sends His Word to our heart, which He waters within our inner being. His instruction causes us to grow in understanding and to bear the cross we need in order to grow into what God calls complete. He helps us cross the bridges less traveled, traveling the gulf between the natural and the spiritual. We are supplied able discernment to know what is born of the spirit, who is now holy and unholy, who now abides in God-given endowments through Christ.
New character endowments are displayed within us. We see the standard of His divine nature as qualities of divine fruit are producing within our spirit anew. What a marvelous faculty we become by personally being part of the family of God! Jesus said to be born is to SEE THE KINGDOM OF GOD and growing thereby one can ENTER THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
In the face of divine truth, empty rituals and static creeds are futile, vain, and lifeless traditions. While still held in esteem by our sincere Christian brothers serving in religious works, these great efforts to establish church authority over one’s life become prison houses for spiritual babes. The people are subject to routine ceremony, filled with “dead ” letter of the word messages instead of the “sincere milk of the word”.
Most Christians are devoted to the traditions of men. Regardless of however great the Christian reformations have become, or what the best of Pentecostal heavens produced in beautiful music, impressive and pleasing platitudes in sermons, and much pageantry of its programs, the average Christian church goer has been left hopelessly separated from knowing the Lord for himself.
Only in following the Lord are the full realities of being spiritually clothed experienced. Men are unable to make themselves alive, nor gain the stature of a full grown man in Christ with mere declarations that are mostly empty words. To be clothed upon within our inner person with the qualities of His peace and righteousness clothing us, clothed with Christ, we are baptized in Christ.
“You hath He quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins...but God, who is rich in mercy, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ...and hath raised us up together and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.” Ephesians 2:1-5
God is quickening our inner spiritual being to raise us to see Jesus’s face, how to enter our rightful place spiritually. Being made one in Christ Jesus takes a transforming growth of our psychical, mental, and spiritual boundaries. Expansion into Kingdom realities is received in the mind of Christ. Jesus will perform this wonderful and divine act of illumination for each of us. He takes the things of God concerning us, and shows them to us.
Nevertheless, the moment any grand and glorious fact of His indwelling guidance grips our heart and fills our mind, we are immediately, there and then, being instantly transformed to something spiritual He has reserved for us, nevertheless given to us. Yes, we are God’s abiding place, His tabernacle! We know His instructions and we have exchanged our carnal thinking to be mindful of our rearranged emotions. We see how our minds are lifted from the darkness in the earth to inquire of higher things, finding these things that surround His throne until we are enthroned with His Life.
He changes our whole being when our quickened spirit rules well over our mind and our body. The law of life in Christ Jesus makes us frees us from the law of sin and death! That truth can guide our every step. The life of God’s character is written within our spiritual being. We are people with a spirit.
Vegetable life is not contained in a reservoir somewhere in the skies to be measured out at certain seasons. Animal life is not bottled up somewhere in the blue beyond and dropped down to earth when it is time for an embryo to be formed. A life form is already in every SEED created, every beast and fish and fowl. Inside its own tissue and substance there works a mighty power to form life again to reproduce that life contained in its seed. That life forms permanently fixed roots in our organism.
Christian’ have been like homeless forces without foundation ,promiscuously inhabiting political space. Multitudes can be gathered by religious leaders, yet, like electricity, from the clouds they can be divided instantly also, dissipated over jealously and indiscretion. The Father knows us, definite and resident, to enliven us resident tenants of the Father’s own Spirit:
“The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man which sowed good seed in his field.” Matthew 13:24
Now we live by holding to every Word coming from the mouth of God. The truth of His Words water our spirit to produce insight and growth of His character within us. We are revived from within, changing, transforming by refreshing births to new levels surrounding the King. His rest is coming to free every person weary in well doing. We learning to rest and rise up to be a partaker of the incorruptible Word and Spirit of God.
It becomes more clear to see with spiritual understanding when sensitive to the reality of CHRIST GROWING RIGHTEOUSNESS WITHIN OUR SPIRIT fills our consciousness. We are guided by His Spirit to continually transform our thinking, being renewed unto the full image of a full grown man in Christ is revealed. The transforming of our bodies from the power of death’s decay is the next step of growth that must be evidenced for the “mortal to put on immortality”, for us to reach higher into the full measure of sonship in God:
“We ourselves too, who have and enjoy (only ) the firstfruits of the Spirit — a foretaste of the blissful things to come — groan inwardly as we wait for the redemption of our bodies from sensuality and the grave, which will reveal our adoption, our manifestation as God’s sons.” Romans 8:23 Amplified Bible
This change working in first fruit sons is redemption finally working in the whole person, a mighty in-working power of DIVINE LIFE, INSCRIBED, IN-WORKED BY HIS WORD, until we enter anew, to sit down enthroned with Him:
"You, however, live not by your natural inclinations, but by the Spirit, since the Spirit of God has made a home in you. Indeed, anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. But when Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin but the spirit is alive because you have been justified; and if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead has made his home in you, then He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will give life to your own mortal bodies through his Spirit living in you. So then, my brothers, we have no obligation to human nature to be dominated by it.” Romans 8:9-12 NJB
The maturing of our spiritual person has grown from having contact with spiritual people with their viewpoints to words spoken by the Lord. His Word abides and grows within our heart to make us not only spiritually alive, but strengthens us in PRESSING ON until even our mortal bodies are quickened with His life. God uses our daily experiences to complete our maturity as we are alive, and our attitudes are right. We are awakened from elementarily doctrines, from seed experiences unfolding in theaters of religious works. Grasp the new life form right now being made available in fuller measures of our Father’s Spirit:
"But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you. " Romans 8:11 NASB